Dhiraj Sharda
**** ********* *******, *******, ** 94536 / *********@*****.*** / 408-***-****
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dhiraj24
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
• Thirteen years of leadership experience building wide range of consumer web, mobile
and payment products.
• Experience in establishing product specifications, managing product requirements, and
market analysis with focus on customer needs.
• Proven ability to bring initiatives to timely completion and create a roadmap for long-
term success.
• Deliver products globally with strong understanding of international markets.
EDUCATION:
• MS in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2010
• Bachelors in Computer Engineering, Pune University, India, 2001
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Business Leader( Director Product) – V.me Mobile Innovation
Visa Inc. August 2012 – Present
I am leading the consumer side of V1 of mobile SDKs that would facilitate payments in iOS and
Android native applications. Working with various stakeholders such as merchant distribution,
sales, marketing, global security and other cross-functional teams to create a roadmap and
deliver on commitments.
Launched mobile native payment SDK for iOS and Android.
https://developer.visa.com/vme/checkout/sdk
• Owner of vision, design and execution of the mobile payment product offered on native
apps by V.me.
• Collaborated with other PM’s, strategy, business development, marketing and legal teams
across Visa to curate the features responsible for a MVP that would position Visa’s
leadership into mobile payments.
• Worked very closely with the design team on creating the experience across multiple
platforms keeping an eye for HCI across the different platforms and user experience.
• Worked with global scrum teams involving other product managers, developers and UI
teams to deliver features.
• Established various KPI’s including client side and server side to measure for the success
of the product.
Sr Product Manager – Tablets
AT&T Interactive September 2011 – August 2012
Responsible for driving new user growth and engagement on the YP mobile iPad and Kindle Fire
app. Also responsible for cross platform feature and vertical ownership.
• Launched YP Mobile app, which is a local search, and discovery app for the iPad that has
4+ ratings on the store.
• Launched YP Mobile Kindle Fire app, which was the #1 app under the Travel category on
Android for Kindle
• Worked with design and engg on prototyping a new lifestyle app idea to boost local
discovery of contractors.
• Worked with a team on consumer experience for Menu integration across the boards by
working with a startup. Ideated the experience around launching a Menu search the first
of its kind and we did that even before Foursquare and Yelp.
• Worked with BD to understand partner offerings and help develop relationships.
• Worked with different cross-functional teams such as Engg, QA, Design, legal, sales and
mobility to launch new app.
• Worked with marketing and PR to promote the app and increase downloads and
engagement.
• Worked on horizontal feature ownerships such as Push Notifications and User Profile.
• Worked with analytics to define the metrics for success for product launches and defined
requirements for instrumentation of the app features.
• Worked with usability to do a usability study on tablet recruits and understand the
responses for the features developed.
Product Manager – Yahoo Finance
Yahoo! Inc October 2006- September 2011
Responsible for Market Pulse, Market Dash ( iPad app), Currency Center, Mutual Fund Center,
ETF Center, Screener, Header/Footer and Social widgets on the site.
• Conceptualized and launched a twitter like stream called Market Pulse on Yahoo! Finance
company pages that aggregates social content from across the web and delivers real time
information. Worked with sales, Biz dev, engineering, QA and other cross-functional
teams to launch the project in time and with quality. Worked with sales to book an
advertiser sponsor for the page to generate millions of dollars in recurring revenue.
• Iterated on Market Pulse pages by sourcing relationships with Nasdaq.com, Stocktwits,
Twitter, Covestor and Seeking Alpha.
• Took ownership of the MarketDash iPad app, which had garnered 4+ ratings on the Apple
store and had 154K, downloads in less than 5 months targeting core portfolio Finance
users.
• Launched MarketDash app in all English speaking countries. Added features to drive
portfolio usage and build up by seeding data from different lists.
• Created roadmap for the Mobile strategy and presented to executive leadership in Media
and Mobile org.
• Spearheaded the regional efforts of collecting requirements on specific pages to deliver a
global experience on the site. Launched Yahoo! Finance sites in India, Singapore,
Australia and New Zealand.
• Increased the social referral traffic by implementing social widgets such as Facebook
Like on the quote pages, Facebook share and tweet buttons on the article pages.
• Worked with the cross functional teams such as Content Publishing Group to devise a
strategy for the social followers to deliver them targeted and relevant content.
• Worked on creating a new business opportunity for the Investor Relations on the
company pages in partnership with BD. The opportunity for this segment was in 10s of
millions in revenue per year.
• Worked with biz dev, ad sales, technical and design teams to develop requirements,
prioritize enhancements, translate into PRDs and drive projects to completion.
• Conducted competitive analysis and developed a strong understanding of the industry and
our partners to identify opportunities to improve the product.
• Attended Finance tradeshows to get insights on specific instruments such as ETFs and
MFs to boost up features and data on the Finance pages.
• Defined strategy and three year roadmap for moving Yahoo! Finance into the social
space.
• Led internal and external partner meetings to discuss business needs and integration
points.
• Winner of the ‘Buzz Marketing’ idea for Yahoo! Travel.
• Awarded the Yahoo!-Hall of Fame award for ‘Stock Exchange’ idea.
Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies September 2002 – September 2006
• Worked with Product Managers to understand requirements and do gap analysis.
• Wrote code in C++ to support various modules and bug fixes in the disk arrays
• Participated in the Design and code review meetings.
• Educated technical support engineers and client support on the new development work by
creating technical documents and specs.
• Tested the end to end product and conducted customer trainings.
• Supported QA by writing test scripts and automation code for the releases.
• Analyzed the SRS (System Requirement Specifications) and developed test plans and test
cases.
• Trained the customer service engineers on the new features and enhancements in the
product.
• Involved in the analysis of the automation efforts to reduce the cycle time for the
regression test suite base. Involved in writing Perl scripts and SQL queries to automate
the build objects from the server.
• Led and managed a team of eleven QA engineers.
• Acted as a Liaison between Quality Assurance work in Cupertino and Bangalore.